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Pyxis with Cover
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On the body, a household scene: between two Doric columns a woman seated to right on a stool, clothed in an Ionic chiton and cloak. On the ground before her a wool-basket. Facing her a woman, similarly clad, holding out a mirror. Next another woman seated on a stool to right holding a small wool-basket in her right hand, then two more women with a cushioned stool between them, the right hand figure holding out a wool-basket in her right hand. All the figures are similarly clad in chiton and cloak. Outline of hair reserved in all cases. On the cover three bulls walking to left and two rocks in the field. Hasty drawing. Intact (cover broken).
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Joseph Clark Hoppin Purchased in Athens 1898 Bequest to Fogg Art Museum 1925.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Title: Pyxis with Cover
Description:
On the body, a household scene: between two Doric columns a woman seated to right on a stool, clothed in an Ionic chiton and cloak.
On the ground before her a wool-basket.
Facing her a woman, similarly clad, holding out a mirror.
Next another woman seated on a stool to right holding a small wool-basket in her right hand, then two more women with a cushioned stool between them, the right hand figure holding out a wool-basket in her right hand.
All the figures are similarly clad in chiton and cloak.
Outline of hair reserved in all cases.
On the cover three bulls walking to left and two rocks in the field.
Hasty drawing.
Intact (cover broken).
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